Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 18th December, 2020.

18th December, 2020.

Yes: I’ve got an earworm!

Dratted thing!

On a more serious note?

On a more serious note, and for the course I’m supposed to be doing … ?

I’ve got the laptop, I’ve got the needed extensions installed, I’ve signed up for an Outlook account, and the free web version of MS Office … 

But?

In order to do the one last test I need to do, before I start the course, proper … ?

I need the activation code for the copy of MS Office on the laptop.

I could pay for it.   Not at £120, I’m not!

I could use the free trial: the course doesn’t need the desktop version, just the test.   Frankly, handing more of my details to Microsoft for a half hour test is … objectionable.

Or I could email my landlords for the thing: which they really should have included in the first place!

To quote the old saw?

It’s one damn thing after another.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 18th December, 2017

Right … that’s the day off done with.

And Aunty Bella visited.

Bless, she’s not getting any younger: but she still has her mind.

And sense of humour.

The one sad part of the day?

Was that we couldn’t persuade her to spend Christmas at ours.

I’d hopefully, we can persuade cousin Julie and her husband to bring her over at some point.

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Nik Nak’s Daily Teaser — 18-12-2016

Hmmm … 

I’ve just had a quick look at the BBC’s News pages.

Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid has floated the idea that civil servants should swear an oath to uphold British values.

Hmmm … 

Right now?   Right now, I’m wondering which ones he’d include.

He speaks of democracy and freedom of speech.

But cynically think there’s plenty of others he wouldn’t include.

You know the ones.

Selling stuff to make HUGE amounts of cash: regardless of the damage the objects are doing.   The Opium Wars were basically a huge squabble launched when Imperial China refused to let the UK sell its citizens lots of opium.

Anti-semitisism and racism are others: there was a hell of a lot of support for Nazi Germany in Britain, before the war started.   And a lot of hate crime still being reported.

Oh, and anti-catholic sentiment: what on Earth is Bonfire Night all about?

British Values.

You have to love a wooly phrase … 

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